BMW driver line-up for Spa 24 Hours.

Munich, 21st April 2004. A good three months before the 24 Hour Race at Spa,
Belgium on 31st July/1st August, the drivers have been definitively selected.
For Antonio Garcia of Spain and British driver Andy Priaulx it will be their
first endurance event of this kind for BMW Motorsport. They round off the team
made up of the two German BMW works drivers Dirk and Jörg Müller, their
compatriot Hans-Joachim Stuck and Pedro Lamy of Portugal, all four of whom will
be driving the muscular BMW M3 GTR in the preceding 24 Hour Race at the
Nürburgring on 12th/13th June.

Garcia and Priaulx bring with them experience of long-distance events and
worthy achievements as BMW drivers in the European Touring Car Championship
(ETCC). 2004 sees Garcia in his second year of ETCC competition for BMW Team
Italy-Spain, while Priaulx is in his second season for BMW Team Great Britain.
Both drivers, moreover, have experience with racing cars on a performance par
with the BMW M3 GTR. As part of his involvement in the 2002 FIA GT
Championship, Garcia has already competed in the 24 Hours of Spa. Priaulx, who
also works for BMW as an instructor in the Formula BMW UK Championship, has
raced in the V8 Supercar series in Australia.

BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen: "With these drivers we feel we have a
solid line-up for Spa as well. The driver teams for the respective cars have
yet to be decided. The Spa event will put an extreme strain on the team and the
drivers. Apart from Hans-Joachim Stuck and Pedro Lamy, all of them will be
racing in rounds 13 and 14 of the ETCC immediately prior to the 24 Hours."

The cars lined up for the 24-hour races are two of the 500 bhp BMW M3 GTRs
developed by BMW Motorsport in Munich. They will be fielded by the same team
that is racing the BMW 320i models manned by Dirk and Jörg Müller for BMW Team
Deutschland in the ETCC. Both competition efforts are managed by Schnitzer
Motorsport of Freilassing.

Under the aegis of Schnitzer's team manager Charly Lamm, BMW touring cars have
already won the Spa 24 Hours on five occasions: in 1985, '86, '88, '90 and '95.
BMW has posted a total of 21 overall victories in this endurance marathon which
was first staged in the Ardennes in 1924.

The BMW M3 GTR marked its debut in the 2001 American Le Mans Series (ALMS), in
which it claimed victory in every discipline: Jörg Müller won the Drivers'
title, BMW Motorsport took the Team trophy, and BMW was the Constructors'
champion in the USA.

Antonio Garcia (ESP)
Born 5th June 1980 in Madrid (ESP). 1988?1996: kart racing, 1994: winner World
Championship Karting Inter A category. 1997: third place Formula Campus Renault
Elf, winner European Championship Karting, Formula A. 1998: sixth place Open
Fortuna by Nissan, eighth place World Championship Karting, Formula Super A.
1999: fifth place Euro Open Moviestar by Nissan. 2000: winner Open Telefonica.
2001: FIA GT Championship N-GT class, class win Nürburgring 24 Hours,
International FIA Formula 3000 Championship.
2002: fifth place World Series by Nissan, FIA GT Championship N-GT class. 2003:
eighth place ETCC (BMW 320i). 2004: also competing in the ETCC.

Pedro Lamy (PRT)
Born 20th March 1972 in Aldeia Galega (PRT). 1978?1981: Mini Motorbikes in
Portugal, circuit racing and motocross, nine championship titles. 1988:
Portuguese Kart Champion. 1989 Portuguese Formula Ford Champion. 1991: European
Formula Opel Champion. 1992: German Formula 3 Champion (eleven wins). 1993:
runner-up European Formula 3000 Championship, Formula One debut (Lotus). 1994:
four F1 GPs for Lotus. 1995: eight F1 GPs for Minardi, one sixth place. 1996:
F1 season for Minardi. 1997 FIA GT Championship (Porsche). 1998: FIA GT
Championship (Chrysler Viper), eight wins. 1999: Le Mans 24 Hours (Mercedes),
ALMS and ISRS (BMW). 2000 and 2001: German Touring Car Championship (DTM)
(Mercedes). 2001 and 2002: winner Nürburgring 24 Hours (Chrysler Viper). 2002:
V8 Star (Jaguar) and Le Mans 24 Hours. 2003: V8 Star Champion (Jaguar),
Nürburgring 24 Hours (Dodge Viper), Spa 24 Hours (Chrysler Viper), fifth
overall.

Dirk Müller (GER)
Born 18th November 1975 in Burbach, Siegerland (GER). Started kart racing in
1989. Race wins in Formula König and Formula Opel. 1996: German Formula 3
Championship, one win. 1998: winner Porsche Carrera Cup. 1998 and 1999: second
in class Daytona 24 Hours. 1999: Le Mans 24 Hours, second in class. 2000:
winner GT Class ALMS. BMW works driver since 2001. 2001: ALMS (BMW M3 GTR), one
win. 2002: ETCC (BMW 320i), three wins, fourth overall. 2003: ETCC (BMW 320i),
two wins, fifth overall. 2004: also racing in the ETCC.

Jörg Müller (GER)
Born 3rd September 1969 in Kerkrade (NLD). 1988: German Formula Ford Champion.
1989: winner German Formula Opel. 1990: winner European Formula Ford
Championship. 1991: winner Formula 3 GP Monaco. 1993: winner Formula 3 GP
Macau. 1994: winner German Formula 3 Championship. 1995: winner ADAC Super
Touring Cup (BMW). 1996: winner European Formula 3000 Championship, winner Spa
24 Hours (BMW). 1997?1999: Formula One test driver, incl. BMW. 1999: winner
Sebring 12 Hours (BMW V12 LMR). 2000: ALMS (BMW V12 LMR), two wins. 2001:
winner GT Class ALMS (BMW M3 GTR). 2002: runner-up ETCC (BMW 320i), four wins.
2003: ETCC (BMW 320i), five wins, second overall. 2004: also raced in the ETCC.
24-hour events: three starts Le Mans, four starts Nürburgring, one start
Daytona and Spa.

Andy Priaulx (GBR)
Born 8th August 1974 in Guernsey, Channel Islands. Started kart racing in 1984.
1990: winner Channel Islands Motocross Championship 250 cc class. 1995: winner
RAC MSA British Hillclimb Championship. 1996: Formula Renault. 1997: British
Formula 3 Championship scholarship. 1998: Renault Spider Cup, runner-up Formula
Palmer Audi Winter series. 1999: winner Renault Spider Cup, BTCC test driver
for Renault Williams, Vauxhall and Ford. 2000/2001: British Formula 3
Championship and F3 races in Macau and Korea. 2002: fifth place British Touring
Car Championship. Competed in Australia in the Bathurst 1000 and the Queensland
500 (Holden TWR). 2003: ETCC (BMW 320i), three wins. 2004: also racing in the
ETCC.

Hans-Joachim Stuck (GER)
Born 1st January 1951 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER). 1970: winner Nürburgring
24 Hours (BMW 2002ti). 1972: winner Spa 24 Hours, German Racing Champion. 1974:
runner-up European Formula 2 Championship (March BMW). In total 74 Formula One
GPs. 1979: winner Procar Series (BMW). 1985: winner World Sports Car
Championship. 1986: runner-up World Sports Car Championship, winner Le Mans and
Sebring 24 Hours. 1987: second win at Le Mans (in total 18 Le Mans starts to
1998). 1988: winner Sebring 12 Hours. 1990: winner German Touring Car
Championship. 1993: winner IMSA Supercar Series. 1998: winner Nürburgring 24
Hours (BMW 320d). 1999/2000: class wins ALMS (BMW M3 GT). 2001: class wins ALMS
(BMW M3 GTR). 2003: races with BMW in the USA and Nürburgring 24 Hours. 51
starts in 24-hour events to date.

Press contact: Heike Bartsch, BMW Corporate Communications,
Tel. 089-382 33115, heike.bartsch@bmw.de